Karen Greenberg was quoted in a Voice of America article about the current rates of death caused by terrorism.
The report said terrorist attacks by the Islamic State (IS) terror group fell by 23 percent, and deaths caused by the group fell by 53 percent compared with 2016.
With help from the U.S.-led coalition, local Iraqi and Syrian forces have pushed IS out of most areas it once held, including its two major strongholds of Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria.
“The reduction of the [IS] caliphate has a great deal to do with this,” said Karen Greenberg, director of Center on National Security at Fordham Law. The setbacks for IS hurt the group’s image and recruiting of foreign fighters, she said.
